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xkcd

Jul 31st

What Were They Thinking?

Jul 31st

“But the modern right wing, as Daniel Bell has put it, feels...”
— The Paranoid Style in American...

Jul 31st

Tom Toles

Jul 31st

Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire

Jul 31st

“Morality doesn’t come from religion. Healthy human children...”
— Valerie Tarico

Jul 31st

Mike Luckovich

Jul 31st

World's first computer may be even older than...

Jul 31st

“I have information about things that our government has lied...”
— Sibel Edmonds

Jul 31st

Meanwhile, Back In The Jungle

Jul 31st

Joe Heller

Jul 31st

“Everyone in the world knows that Jesus and his teachings...”
— Gandhi

Jul 31st

“Microsoft has lost all but a sliver of this entire market....”
— Daring Fireball

Jul 31st

Disturbing poll on Obama’s citizenship

Jul 31st

The greatest movies ever made

Jul 31st

“People love to chalk up posts like this to “whiny iPhone...”
— stevenf.com

Jul 31st

bartcop.com

Jul 31st

“Some critics attack single-payer, arguing that under such a...”
— Obama’s Doctor Speaks...

Jul 31st

“Although I actively participate in a network of blogs,...”
— Emergent Village

Jul 31st

The Huffington Post is crazy about your...

Jul 31st

The lessons of 1979-82

Jul 31st

“There has to be a reason that the US, of all the...”
— Hullabaloo

Jul 31st

“…if you don’t like the idea of “thought...”
— DarkStar Spouts Off

Jul 31st

Remembering History’s Evils

Jul 31st

Thursday, Bloody Thursday in Honduras

Jul 31st

Sketches of the Drug Czars

Jul 31st

“Dallas and Houston were major corporate centers for decades....”
— Rogue Columnist

Jul 31st

“Today the average American spends a mere 27 minutes a day on...”
— Michael Pollan

Jul 30th

Swedish lesbians suck sperm banks dry

Jul 30th

“Indeed, the notion that government and “private”...”
— The Death of Libertarianism?...

Jul 30th

Driver blames car crash on snakes in pants...

Jul 30th

“We live in a corporate state. We live in a state that no...”
— Chris Hedges

Jul 30th

Homeless Man Builds $5 Million Website

Jul 30th

“Imagine it is 1965. You’ve seen the curves Gordon...”
— The Technium

Jul 30th

Crowdsourced 3D City

Jul 30th

“Our kitchens and other eating places more and more resemble...”
— Wendell Berry

Jul 30th

Harry and Louise's Deadly Embrace

Jul 30th

Mike Luckovich

Jul 30th

Honduras and the Supreme Court

Jul 30th

Desperate state may sell Capitol buildings,...

Jul 30th

“There are only two ways of spreading light–to be the candle...”
— Edith Wharton

Jul 30th

Minimum Wage Increases are Good

In a similar vein to the befuddlement in this post on how Christians could champion a for-profit...

Jul 30th

“They don’t think about the the girl in China who...”
— To Them, The Magic of Lower...

Jul 29th

John Sherffius

Jul 29th

“As an economist, I find it astonishing that members of my...”
— Economic fundamentalism and...

Jul 29th

“Conservatives won this round in the culture wars, not merely...”
— Thomas Frank

Jul 29th

Here's the Meat of the Problem

Jul 29th

“Yahoo committed seppuku today. The once proud warrior of the...”
— Jason Calacanis

Jul 29th

“…McArdle knows nothing of economics or political economy,...”
— Why Andrew Sullivan is right...

Jul 29th

“The idea that private markets are the most innovative is a...”
— TheDailyBanter.com

Jul 29th

On "Islamo-Fascism"

An excellent post from squashed on usage of the term “Islamo-Fascist”: Janet...

Jul 29th

Teaching Robots the Rules of War

Jul 29th

Watch

The Truth About Amsterdam, RE: Bill O’Reilly loves Amsterdam

Jul 29th

Ambassadorships for Sale

Jul 29th

“The FOX & Friends homepage, this morning, included 41...”
— Segregation & Friends

Jul 29th

“…I find it very odd that Christians who live here generally...”
— Rob Warmowski

Jul 29th

Imaginary Friends

Jul 29th

Top 10 Ironic Ads From History

Jul 29th

Global Ocean Surface Temperature Warmest On...

Jul 29th

“The reason a real health-care bill is not going to get...”
— Matt Taibbi

Jul 28th

Pat Bagley

Jul 28th

Pot Is an Anti-Cancer Drug

Jul 28th

“Every dollar that churches fail to pay in taxes is another...”
— Should Churches Pay Taxes?

Jul 28th

Why People Believe Health Care is a Right,...

Jul 28th

Solar Blimp to Fly from New York to Paris,...

Jul 28th

Cars: China vs U.S.

Jul 28th

Outsourcing the Mind

Jul 28th

“In Honduras, the rightwing has kept the masses of poor...”
— A Chance for Real Democracy in...

Jul 28th

E-mails from an Asshole

Jul 28th

Why Americans hate single-payer insurance

Jul 28th

“Our current food industry is the perfect storm of Upton...”
— Demanding Justice for the...

Jul 28th

“A member of my family has recently been a victim of a...”
— I Can’t Find the Exception...

Jul 28th

Healthcare and human rights

squashed: Now, the Bill of Rights, would be a logical place to start in any discussion of rights...

Jul 28th

Watch

William Shatner Makes Palin’s Speech Into Poetry

Jul 28th

The Truth about Socialized Medicine

Jul 28th

“While traditional adherence to quaint philosophic concepts...”
— Is Barack Obama An American...

Jul 28th

Rebalancing the economy

Jul 28th

Revealed: the secret evidence of global...

Jul 28th

Tom Tomorrow

Jul 28th

“In private practice I was horrified to see how money was the...”
— Monte Ladner, M.D.

Jul 28th

“As a general rule, you ought not provoke someone carrying a...”
— Radley Balko

Jul 28th

An Easy Way to Increase Creativity

Jul 28th

“For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material...”
— Tim Jackson

Jul 28th

Matt Bors

Jul 28th

Casualties of War, Part I: The hell of war...

Jul 28th

“He recently had a column in the NY Times vainly attacking...”
— Malcolm Gladwell Doth...

Jul 28th

David Fitzsimmons

Jul 28th

“Sarah Palin’s most notable achievement as governor of Alaska...”
— David Frum

Jul 27th

A Very Short History of the Planet Earth

Jul 27th

“American capitalism needs a laboring underclass to survive....”
— Joe Bageant

Jul 27th

“Why did human beings those many thousands of years ago first...”
— Beer and the Origins of...

Jul 27th

Obama, the Great Wealth Creator?

Jul 27th

“This isn’t the first time in American history that...”
— James Howard Kunstler

Jul 27th

Health-Care Reform is a Life and Death Issue

Jul 27th

“Our laws recognize a number of legal ages for various...”
— Scott Adams

Jul 27th

Cellphone Gripes Worthy of Congress’s Time

Jul 27th

U.S. Professor: I told FBI about kidney...

Jul 27th

“…[Bill] Kristol is someone who not only lies constantly, but...”
— Glenn Greenwald

Jul 27th

Women are getting more beautiful

Jul 27th

“Here’s what you buy when you buy a Kindle book. You buy the...”
— Kindle and the future of...

Jul 27th

The Truth Behind Secret Recipes in Coke, KFC,...

Jul 27th

“Those who fail to exhibit positive attitudes, no matter the...”
— Chris Hedges

Jul 27th

Military Robots and the Laws of War

Jul 27th

“So when you hear people like DeMint — or conservative...”
— Paul Krugman

Jul 27th

The Best Question Ever

Jul 27th

Fertile Crescent 'will disappear this...

Jul 27th

“America is a socialist country for the rich, but a...”
— Exceptionalism – The American...

Jul 26th

Hondouras Imposes State of Siege in South

Jul 26th

Mike Luckovich

Jul 26th

The Health Care Debate: Another Country Heard...

Jul 26th

“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people...”
— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Jul 26th

Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man

Jul 26th

“Though Twitter may be guilty for promoting (or at least...”
— The Return of the Epigram

Jul 26th

The Big Lie of Afghanistan

Jul 26th

“And by the way, if anyone wants to see some real incoherence...”
— Hullabaloo

Jul 26th

Evolution machine speeds search for better...

Jul 26th

“The Populists of the 1890s were neither primitive nor...”
— What Passes for...

Jul 26th

Homesick for a Dictatorship: Majority of...

Jul 26th

Andy Singer

Jul 26th

Are IKEA, Outlet Malls, Wal-Mart, and Whole...

Jul 26th

15 life lessons learned from SimCity

Jul 26th

Health Care — Democrats Had Better Find...

Jul 25th

Hockey stick gets longer, stronger: Earth hotter now than in...

Jul 25th

“Humans have been aggressively transforming the planet for...”
— Re-Engineering the Earth

Jul 25th

Why markets can’t cure healthcare

Jul 25th

“Back in the early ’90s, when the insurance industry...”
— Wendell Potter

Jul 25th

Online advertising: when better is worse

Jul 25th

“While you are sitting at your computer reading in a place...”
— cab drollery

Jul 25th

“I’m thinking about killing Michael Moore and I’m...”
— Glenn Beck

Jul 25th

“One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that...”
— Alice Walker

Jul 25th

Ireland Outlaws Blasphemy

Jul 25th

“Soldiers stake their lives on a cosmic wager that what they...”
— Does War Make Sense? Science...

Jul 25th

“The long-term fall in worker buying power is one reason we...”
— Holly Sklar

Jul 25th

In the Future, the Cost of Education will be...

Jul 25th

Eating Ourselves

Jul 25th

Indian school for rogue monkeys

Jul 25th

“It is but equity…that they who feed, clothe and lodge the...”
— Adam Smith

Jul 24th

Regarding Minimum Wage

sds: “Come Friday, the federally mandated minimum wage will jump from $6.55 an hour to $7.25—an 11...

Jul 24th

Watch

Obama vs. Obama

Jul 24th

Is Peak Oil Real? A List of Countries Past...

Jul 24th

The Palestinian Paradox

Jul 24th

David Fitzsimmons

Jul 24th

“It makes me wonder what people a hundred years from now will...”
— Tim O’Reilly

Jul 24th

“It’s amazing the hoops the auto industry had to jump...”
— Doug Henwood

Jul 24th

Microwave weapon will rain pain from the sky

Jul 24th

“Prisons used to be a non-profit business, too. And for good...”
— Bill Maher

Jul 24th

The Long Hot Summer

Jul 24th

John Sherffius

Jul 23rd

“I have to say I am surprised by the controversy surrounding...”
— President Obama

Jul 23rd

“The media’s role has been nothing less than shameful:...”
— Rogue Columnist

Jul 23rd

“I might be kicked out of “The Black scholars...”
— Consider this before crying...

Jul 23rd

The Joy of Tech

Jul 23rd

“Those who most adamantly oppose the “church of...”
— Exploring Our Matrix

Jul 23rd

Submarines for Everyone!

Jul 23rd

Bill Day

Jul 23rd

Back and Forth

Jul 23rd

“No where is the contrast between Jesus and Jehovah more...”
— Greg Boyd

Jul 23rd

“A great many scholars are bibliophiles, but not me. While I...”
— Stone age memes: Google my...

Jul 23rd

Newspapers: 180 years of not charging for...

Jul 23rd

Watch

The Born Identity

Jul 23rd

Joe Heller

Jul 23rd

“Among the range of options for health-care reform,...”
— Steven Pearlstein

Jul 23rd

Artificial brain '10 years away'

Jul 23rd

Mike Luckovich

Jul 23rd

“In the past, the benefits of modern medical science have not...”
— Harry S. Truman

Jul 23rd

Why Are Southerners So Fat?

Jul 23rd

nakedpastor

Jul 23rd

“I’ve always thought that being a doctor should be a...”
— John Robb

Jul 23rd

“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and...”
— Paulo Freire

Jul 23rd

Girl Arrested for Swearing on 911 Call

Jul 22nd

“The importance of the historical-critical method hit me...”
— César Baldelomar

Jul 22nd

Steve Benson

Jul 22nd

Your Life vs. Insurance Company Profits

Jul 22nd

“A large number of evangelical Christians in America (not...”
— Timstafford’s Blog

Jul 22nd

Waging inequality

Jul 22nd

“Approximately 25% of adult Americans have graduated from...”
— The Champions of Marriage

Jul 22nd

Generation of Sarcasm

Jul 22nd

“[The fact that early Christians were completely unlike us in...”
— James McGrath

Jul 22nd

“The periods of highest taxation of the highest incomes...”
— Should We Bring Back The 90%...

Jul 22nd

bartcop.com

Jul 22nd

Author Targets Pop Culture's 'Empire Of...

Jul 22nd

“Single-Payer Health Care, is it the answer? I am of the...”
— The Lie That Conservatives...

Jul 22nd

“Obama is caught in a classic catch-22. The Antichrist, the...”
— Matthew Avery Sutton

Jul 22nd

Nobody Hates Software More Than Software...

Jul 22nd

Can Logic defeat the Kindle?

Jul 22nd

“Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things...”
— Marcus Aurelius Verus

Jul 22nd

Tom Toles

Jul 22nd

The Great Tax Con Job

Jul 21st

“I read the piece on TechCrunch and thought it sounds like...”
— Evan Williams vs the Internet

Jul 21st

Twitterers Paid to Spread Israeli Propaganda

Jul 21st

Cringely Inducing

Jul 21st

“The electronic age…angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him...”
— Marshall McLuhan

Jul 21st

“To keep it all simple and safe, we often become selective...”
— On offendedness

Jul 21st

The 100 most-read Bible verses

Jul 21st

“Because Norwegians are practical, they enjoy saving money...”
— George Lakey

Jul 21st

Turbocharging the Concentration of...

sds: Why on earth would our response to that situation be to tax people into submission - and...

Jul 21st

newscientist.com

Jul 21st

Reinventing the desktop (for real this time)

Jul 21st

“For all the laid-off “Joe the Plumbers” who share the...”
— Robert Parry

Jul 21st

David Fitzsimmons

Jul 21st

“You Americans are such suckers. You think that the rules for...”
— The Great Tax Con Job

Jul 21st

Man bursts into flames after being hit by...

Jul 21st

“The carefully selected verses found in the Holy Scriptures...”
— Jimmy Carter

Jul 21st

Is Chinese culture and government to blame...

Jul 21st

“I’ll tell you what ‘anti-American’ is. It’s what governments...”
— Martha Gellhorn

Jul 20th

“The worst of the economic crisis has not yet hit. I don’t...”
— Paul Craig Roberts

Jul 20th

By the Numbers

Jul 20th

“I suspect Moore’s Law is something we don’t have...”
— The Technium

Jul 20th

“The moral threat is not consumerism or materialism. Such...”
— Stanley Hauerwas

Jul 20th

Watch

Le voyage dans la Lune

Jul 20th

“In the radio blackout, I opened the little plastic packages...”
— Com-moon-ion

Jul 20th

The Spartan Sense of Humor

Jul 20th

One Giant Leap to Nowhere

Jul 20th

“The US economy is now dying a slow and painful death because...”
— James Howard Kunstler

Jul 20th

“Social advance depends as much upon the process through...”
— Jane Addams

Jul 20th

Photoshop as a cultural artifact

Jul 20th

It’s Not the Money. It’s the Relationships.

Jul 20th

My Top 25 Podcasts (2009)

Back in 2007, soon after the genesis of this humble online adobe, I composed a Top 10 Podcast post. ...

Jul 20th

Are you a Book Pack Rat?

Jul 20th

“More interesting, however, is another question: “Under...”
— Delete this book

Jul 20th

Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution

Jul 20th

Sustainable Energy - without the hot air

Jul 20th

“The only way to defeat terrorist groups is to isolate them...”
— Chris Hedges

Jul 20th

Watch

First Moon Landing 1969

Jul 20th

Something May Have Just Hit Jupiter

Jul 19th

My GOP: Too old, too white to win

Jul 19th

“…if evangelicals cannot develop a stronger response and...”
— internetmonk.com

Jul 19th

Matt Bors

Jul 19th

“When we can’t dream any longer we die.”
— Emma Goldman

Jul 19th

“The conservative nanny state folklore on immigration is that...”
— The Conservative Nanny State

Jul 19th

Transparency is the new objectivity

Jul 19th

Bill Day

Jul 19th

“This rhetoric of liberation has led many a talented and...”
— Whimsley

Jul 19th

“Today, the use of bio-electromagnetic weapons and depleted...”
— Mark Vander Vennen

Jul 19th

“At least in the past, those who wished to represent their...”
— Rick Perlstein

Jul 19th

DanzigerCartoons.com

Jul 19th

Honduras: The Nonviolent Battle for the...

Jul 19th

“How do faith-based organizations respond to virtuality? The...”
— microclesia

Jul 19th

Get Smarter

Jul 19th

The (Sponsored) Culture of Narcissism

Jul 19th

“We completely understand the public’s concern about...”
— Company Denies its Robots Feed...

Jul 19th

How to write a book

Jul 19th

“The world of 1906 was hardly perfect — I wouldn’t want to...”
— The Public Domain

Jul 19th

California sprouts marijuana ‘green rush’

Jul 19th

An American History Lesson for Pat Buchanan

Jul 19th

“Jesus would never have broken through as a genuinely new...”
— Richard Rohr

Jul 19th

Watch

America Is Michael Jackson!

Jul 19th

“…when it comes to reading material, I am the hero of...”
— Phil Nugent

Jul 18th

“Armchair sociologist that I am, I have a theory about this:...”
— Joe Bageant

Jul 18th

freep.com

Jul 18th

“The cost of Wal-Mart’s low prices is illustrated by the...”
— Low-wage capitalism

Jul 18th

“When you buy for US$2 in New York an umbrella that’s...”
— Outplaying your partner

Jul 18th

7 Simple Ways to Dramatically Improve...

Jul 18th

“There’s a pattern developing in the United...”
— Tim Fernholz

Jul 18th

The Day They Arrested President Roosevelt

Jul 18th

Celebrating Cronkite while ignoring what he...

Jul 18th

“Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a...”
— Henri Nouwen

Jul 17th

“The first thing to understand is the difference between the...”
— William Jennings Bryan

Jul 17th

“…the Apollo missions helped to create some of the most...”
— David Brin

Jul 17th

Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others

Jul 17th

“I used to spend a lot of time wondering about the vampires,...”
— Waking Up

Jul 17th

“Since 1980 it has become official policy to ensure that the...”
— David Cay Johnston

Jul 17th

xkcd.com

Jul 17th

“Walking is risky and breathing a challenge in the great...”
— Eduardo Galeano

Jul 17th

“…The earth was found to be, literally, alive with electrical...”
— Nikola Tesla

Jul 17th

How to make graphs that work

Jul 17th

“Scholars insist this is the unavoidable consequence of a...”
— David Sirota

Jul 17th

“I learned this, at least…that if one advances confidently in...”
— Henry David Thoreau

Jul 17th

Pat Bagley

Jul 17th

“At the root of the far-right’s sudden rediscovery of the...”
— Submitted to a Candid World

Jul 17th

Upcoming Military Robot Could Feed on Dead...

Jul 16th

Rob Rogers

Jul 16th

Stimulus Works in China

Jul 16th

Why We Must Ration Health Care

Jul 16th

bartcop.com

Jul 16th

Recession sends Americans to the Internet

Jul 16th

“A handheld device’s screen should be touch-sensitive....”
— Jamais Cascio

Jul 16th

Prayer for Peace

Jul 16th

“Conservative Activist Judge” is NOT an Oxymoron

Jul 16th

“It is common for opponents of health care rationing to point...”
— Peter Singer

Jul 16th

Is porn good for America?

Jul 16th

nakedpastor

Jul 16th

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we...”
— Mother Teresa

Jul 16th

Churches say broadband is about "economic...

Jul 15th

“iTunes 8.2.1 is a free software update that provides a...”
— The Pre Is Locked Out Of...

Jul 15th

Post-Pythagorean Economics

Jul 15th

“The distinction between character and personality is one...”
— Peter Stromberg

Jul 15th

America’s Tax Dishonesty

Jul 15th

“That’s what’s so scary. These rich old white men...”
— Charles Alexander

Jul 15th

Revisit Carter's Energy Speech

Jul 15th

Produce Less; Consume More

Jul 15th

Robot Wars

Jul 15th

What can Americans learn from the British...

Jul 15th

“Iraq is, of course, one of the world’s great hydrocarbon...”
— Tom Engelhardt

Jul 15th

“A few weeks ago, Clarence Thomas did it again. This time...”
— Steve Bergstein

Jul 15th

“I believe that if we don’t pass the health care plan with...”
— Howard Dean

Jul 15th

The Joy of Tech

Jul 15th

Will Your ID Soon Be a Microchip Under Your...

Jul 14th

15 Books Meme

(via abbyjean, apsies, aimee-b-loved, trapezemusic, shaneguiter): Not the best 15 books you’ve ever...

Jul 14th

Saradise Lost: How Alaska bloggers dethroned...

Jul 14th